[Wikimediauk-l] Re: UK Newspapers: 1 Million become free-to-view (registration required)

2021-08-10 Thread John Levin
oom/status/1424719234815434754 [2] https://twitter.com/BL_newsroom/status/1424730642512809993 -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis https://hcommons.org/members/johnlevin/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wik

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Historic Prisons database

2018-07-18 Thread John Levin
osed, at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prisons_in_the_United_Kingdom and of prison hulks (ships): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_prison_hulks John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis https://hcommons.org/members/johnl

[Wikimediauk-l] Historic Prisons database

2018-07-18 Thread John Levin
adding links to it on historic prisons pages, but obviously can be used to create and enhance entries. John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis https://hcommons.org/members/johnlevin/ ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Editing question

2018-04-06 Thread John Levin
On 06/04/2018 09:49, Samuel Tarling wrote: Hi John, I'd suggest linking to the non-existent pages as such: [[Ben Addison (guitarist)|Ben Addison]] - that way, in the future, if the page was created we could easily disambiguate Kind regards, Thanks; have done so. John -- John Levin

[Wikimediauk-l] Editing question

2018-04-06 Thread John Levin
(Ben Addison & Richard Searle) to similarly named but different individuals. The band members themselves don't have their own pages. What should I do? Disambiguation page? Remove code for links? Create pages for members (probably unneccessary)? TIA John -- John Levin

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia genealogy and historical research software - a proposal for HRE

2017-05-25 Thread John Levin
On 25/05/2017 10:10, John Levin wrote: As a PhD student & hstorian, this looks like a really useful idea. I'm not entirely clear how it would work: is it a GUI for are there any screen mock-ups or such like? Is it a sort of front end for databases like Wikidata? Ah, sorry, mi

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedia genealogy and historical research software - a proposal for HRE

2017-05-25 Thread John Levin
ing list still has very few subscribers) ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: https://wikimedia.org.uk -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.c

[Wikimediauk-l] Old Bailey Online links

2017-05-06 Thread John Levin
/Category:People_tried_at_the_Old_Bailey And just found that there is a template for OB trials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Old_Bailey But not found it used anywhere. John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://twitter.com/anterotesis ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] CC licenses for PhD theses

2017-05-01 Thread John Levin
Communications Coordinator Wikimedia UK On 1 May 2017 at 14:22, John Levin <anterote...@gmail.com <mailto:anterote...@gmail.com>> wrote: Dear list, The subject of publishing postgrad / PhD these under open licenses came up via the W.UK <http://W.UK> twitter account a few days

[Wikimediauk-l] CC licenses for PhD theses

2017-05-01 Thread John Levin
university I've found that overtly advocates CC licenses: https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/371/copyright_for/294/copyright_for_phds/4 But this is on the sole basis of a few hours googling. I'm a PhD at Sussex ATM, so will be looking more closely into their arrangements next year. John -- John

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Digitisaton of East India Company/ India Office records

2017-02-08 Thread John Levin
it would be great to see what the potential is in terms of > the Wikimedia projects :) > I am not so sure. Wasn't the East India Company in reality a body that acted as if they were country of occupation in India? Gordon -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Intro / British statutes

2017-01-11 Thread John Levin
On 11/01/2017 13:27, David Gerard wrote: Obvious first thought: how to coordinate this with what http://www.bailii.org/ does? Contacting BAILII is on my list of things to do. Will do it soon. John - d. On 3 January 2017 at 14:44, John Levin <anterote...@gmail.com> wrote: Dea

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Intro / British statutes

2017-01-10 Thread John Levin
rles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com <mailto:charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com>> wrote: __ On 03 January 2017 at 14:44 John Levin <anterote...@gmail.com <mailto:anterote...@gmail.com>> wrote: My user page is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki